Shedeur Sanders headlines top 2025 NFL Draft QBs: 'He could start for you next week'

NFL Draft season is heating up. The NFL Scouting Combine is set to begin later this week, with most of the top prospects in April's draft participating in several drills. After releasing my first mock draft a couple of weeks ago, I want to rank my top five quarterbacks for the upcoming draft. 

There are two quarterbacks who are clearly at the top and are the only first-round-caliber quarterbacks in this year's class. Beyond the top quarterbacks, there are five players I debated for the fifth spot.

Sanders is excellent. I think he's a phenomenal player. He is equal parts surgeon and artist, and that's one of the reasons why I love his game. I think it's translatable to the National Football League. 

When he needs to be, he can be a surgeon. He can sit in the pocket and just dice people up. He anticipates as well as anybody in this draft. He's hyper-accurate, so he's got that ability to just be the prototypical pocket guy, dicing you up and down the field, in intermediate zones, driving the football, throwing with touch, and then taking easy throws on the outside as well, or even in the middle of the field. He's got that surgeon and command capabilities that you would want to see from your starting quarterback.

Sanders also has something more that makes him my No. 1 quarterback. He's got this ability to be an artist. Sanders does an amazing job of creating when things aren't there, which he had to do quite a bit, by the way, because of who he played for. Remember where Colorado was when he and his dad arrived? The Buffs were a one-win team in the previous year and Sanders helped them become a nine-win team and in the race for the Big 12 title by Year 2. They don't get to that point without Sanders. Sure, they also had